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1var NEWS_DATA = [
2  {
3    "date": "2026-07-08",
4    "featured": true,
5    "tag": "Concert",
6    "title": "Scientific Advisor for <em>Hersenklanken</em>, Muziekzomer Gelderland 2026",
7    "desc": "Serving as Scientific Advisor for <em>Hersenklanken</em>, a program by cellist Douwe Eisses exploring how music works on the brain. Part of Muziekzomer Gelderland 2026, performed at three venues across Gelderland on 5–7 August 2026.",
8    "link": "https://njon.nl/agenda/hersenklanken/",
9    "link_text": "Concert details",
10    "photo": "images/Hersenklanken.jpg"
11  },
12  {
13    "date": "2026-06-26",
14    "featured": true,
15    "tag": "Award",
16    "title": "Won the Jury Prize of the FGw Humanities Education Award 2026, University of Amsterdam",
17    "desc": "The Master's course <em>How Music Works: Inside the Musical Mind</em> has won the Jury Prize of the Faculty of Humanities Education Award 2026. The jury praised the course's innovative teaching approach and the way it connects theory with practice.",
18    "link": "https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2026/06/winners-education-award-2026.html",
19    "link_text": "Read the UvA announcement",
20    "photo": "images/OnderwijsprijsWinners.jpg"
21  },
22  {
23    "date": "2026-06-03",
24    "featured": true,
25    "tag": "Nomination",
26    "title": "Nominated for the FGw Humanities Education Award 2026, University of Amsterdam",
27    "desc": "The course <em>How Music Works: Inside the Musical Mind</em> has been nominated for the Faculty of Humanities Education Award 2026. Voting is now open.",
28    "link": "https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-humanities/education/education-award/humanities-education-award.html",
29    "link_text": "Vote / More info",
30    "photo": "images/Award.jpg"
31  },
32  {
33    "date": "2026-05-12",
34    "featured": true,
35    "tag": "Grant",
36    "title": "NWO Open Competition SSH-XS grant awarded",
37    "desc": "Received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project <em>Auditory Aesthetic Aha</em> — exploring whether sudden perceptual shifts, such as repeated speech that unexpectedly starts to sound like music, produce moments of aesthetic pleasure, and how the brain transforms ambiguous sound into meaningful experience. Listed in Granted Projects 2026 Round 1.",
38    "link": "https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/open-competition-ssh/granted-projects",
39    "link_text": "View on NWO",
40    "photo": "images/NWO_logo_-_RGB.jpg"
41  },
42  {
43    "date": "2026-03-26",
44    "featured": true,
45    "tag": "Article",
46    "title": "Article in Iwanami Kagaku — 音楽の科学はどこまできたか",
47    "desc": "Article on how the brain distinguishes music from language, published in Iwanami's science journal <em>科学</em> (April 2026 issue). An English translation is planned.",
48    "link": "Kagaku_202604_0302_Sadakata.pdf",
49    "link_text": "Download PDF (JP only — EN translation coming)",
50    "photo": "images/Kagaku.jpg",
51    "photo_fit": "contain"
52  },
53  {
54    "date": "2026-04-20",
55    "featured": false,
56    "title": "Workshop: Spectral Percepts — Cognition, Biology and the Origins of Musicality",
57    "desc": "Participated in this interdisciplinary workshop at the Lorentz Center, Leiden (20–24 April 2026).",
58    "link": "https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/spectral-percepts-cognition-biology-and-the-origins-of-musicality.html",
59    "link_text": "More info"
60  },
61  {
62    "date": "2026-03-01",
63    "featured": false,
64    "title": "Hosted Fulbright Specialist visit — Dr. Bryan Nichols (Penn State)",
65    "desc": "Successfully applied for and hosted a Fulbright Specialist visit by Dr. Bryan Nichols (Associate Professor of Music Education, Penn State University / Arts and Design Research Incubator). The visit contributed to course development for <em>How Music Works: Inside the Musical Mind</em> and included faculty consultations on interdisciplinary teaching and research.",
66    "link": "https://fulbrightspecialist.worldlearning.org/the-fulbright-specialist-program",
67    "link_text": "About the program"
68  },
69  {
70    "date": "2026-02-01",
71    "featured": false,
72    "title": "Co-organized LOCOMUS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam",
73    "desc": "Co-organized the LOCOMUS annual in-person meeting in Amsterdam together with Atser Damsma.",
74    "link": "https://www.locomus.net/events/in-person-meeting-2026",
75    "link_text": "More info"
76  }
77];